by Joseph Heller · Simon & Schuster (Trade Division) · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780684840499
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«Now and Then: A Memoir from Coney Island to Here» is the autobiography of Joseph Heller, published by Simon & Schuster in paperback, in English.
Joseph Heller recalls his childhood in the Jewish neighborhood of Coney Island during the Depression, his experience as a bombardier in Italy in World War II, and his path to becoming a writer. Joseph Heller also evokes the people and episodes, tragic and absurd, that inspired characters and scenes in «Catch-22».
The paperback edition, published in May 1999, has 288 pages and is in English; the publisher is Simon & Schuster.
Recommended for readers of memoirs and for admirers of Joseph Heller who want to know the roots of «Catch-22».
Joseph Heller was an American author of novels, short stories, plays, and screenplays. His best-known work is his debut novel Catch-22 (1961), a satire on war and bureaucracy, whose title has become a synonym for an absurd or contradictory choice. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature at least twice, in 1972 and 1975.
